1. a defunct law
2. a defunct organization
1. "In a letter to the editor of the (now, sadly, defunct) magazine The Sciences (vol. 35"
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Howard Margolis, It Started with Copernicus
2. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."
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Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
3. "If there were a national time shortage, the malls would be empty, Netflix would be defunct, and the cable-TV companies would be bankrupt."
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Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook
4. "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."
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Quote by John Maynard Keynes
5. "Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death"
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Quote by E.E. Cummings
6. "III Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death"
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E.E. Cummings, The Early Works of E.E. Cummings
7. "So what have Keynes’s ‘madmen in authority’ done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state."
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Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land
8. "Taxidermy inhabits a half-life, an underpass between life and death. He is oddly vital, still possessed of an animating force, not as defunct as a corpse yet still nowhere near living. A talisman trapped between escape and dust."
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A.A. Gill, To America with Love
9. "I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence."
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Richard Brautigan, So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
10. "A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it."
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Quote by Sam Harris